ARMS EMBARGO

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20069, 16 October 1939, Page 11

ARMS EMBARGO

FEARS OF REPEAL AIDING LONG WAR WASHINGTON OPINION SHIPPING RESTRICTIONS (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 14, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 13. Senators Taft and Nye to-day entered the debate in the Senate on the neutrality law, the former reiterating his known stand and the latter claiming that a repeal of the arms embargo would encourage a long war. “You cannot build sound prosperity upon the sands of wholesale murder,” Mr. Nye added. The Vice-President, Mr. J. M. Garner, is reported to have joined the movement to secure modification of the shipping restrictions. His prestige would help to secure this object. Senator Pittman to-day announced that he would welcome the shipping changes, but they must conform to certain requirements he considered necessary to keep the United States neutral. Choking with anger at Senator Nye’s observations Senator Norris shouted in a quavering voice that it was without foundation to make a charge that repeal of the arms embargo would lead the United States into war and certainly that Herr Hitler would dislike repeal. “Are we going to ask him what we should do?” he asked. “Are we going to be so afraid to offend him that we are going to refuse to act?"